SHAN STATE (AFP) – An 18-year-old recruit in one of Myanmar’s pro-democracy fighting units prepares to launch a drone strike on junta troops, driven by anger and her mother’s call for revolution. Moe Moe is one of hundreds of women training, living and fighting alongside men in the People’s Defence Forces (PDF), upending gender norms […]
NAMHSAN (AFP) – Pickup trucks carrying ethnic minority fighters rolled into a town in Myanmar’s northeastern Shan state recently cleared of junta troops – another victory redrawing the frontlines of the country’s civil war. The convoy passed the golden spire of a Buddhist pagoda in Namhsan but most eyes were scanning the skies for the […]